Platform Labour and Global Logistics

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, NY, USA.

• Introduction Part I. Global Logistics and Platform Labour 1. The E-Logistics Revolution: Amazon, Labour, and the Future of Logistics Work 2. Lords of the Platform: Rentier Capitalism and the Platform Economy 3. Digitalization, Automation and the Future of Globalization 4. Global Supply Chains in the Gig Economy Part II. Labour Restructuring and Platform Work 5. Thriving Small-scale Entrepreneurs or Precarious Own-account Workers? Concepts and Politics of Informal Work since the 1970s 6. A Trade Between Flexibility and Security: Examining the Evolution of Non-Standard Work Arrangements and Ways to Rebalance the Position of Platform Workers in the Labour Exchange 7. Adjunct and Precarious Teaching Labour in Higher Education 8. New Forms of Agency or Atomization? Platform Workers’ Power Resources and Fragmentation Part III. Global Case Studies of Platform and Informal Labour 9. Transportation Workers Mobilization against the Platform Economy: Korea 10. Cheap, fast and flexible. Processes of informalization in Asian garment manufacturing 11. Digital Labour Platforms and the Uberization of Work in Portugal 12. Piece wages in US and Canadian Agriculture as Political Technologies of Labour Control: Implications for the Wider Platform Economy 13. Delivering (In)justice: Contestations within India’s digital food delivery platforms. 14. India’s Platform Economy Experience: A Site for the Commodification-Decommodification Dynamic 15. Entrepreneurship, Informality and the Platform Economy: the Resignification of precariousness in Brazil Part IV. Migration, and Platform Work 16. Contactless delivery: Migrant experiences in the platform economy 17. With this Ring, with this Striving: Love, Marriage, and Labor in the Platform Economy in Southeast Asia 18. Fragmented Labour, Punctuated Temporalities: Spatio-temporal Precarisation among Student Migrant Workers

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